President of Georgia – Preservation and development of Abkhazian language and culture is the duty before our common past and identity
President of Georgia – Preservation and development of Abkhazian language and culture is the duty before our common past and identity

Protection of Abkhazian language is one of the issues that we can care about together despite the occupational line since it represents out common and future interest – President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili said in a video address released on the occasion of Abkhazian Language Day.

According to President, being as the guarantor of Constitution of Georgia, she bears the responsibility for protection of Abkhazian language especially when Abkhazian language is in the UNESCO list of disappearing languages.

“Preservation and development of Abkhazian language and culture is the duty before our common past, culture and identity since the uniqueness of Georgian culture and wealth stands on our language diversity,” Zurabishvili said.

President said she believed that the society would be able to unite around the common objective, overcome difficulties and create the precondition for reconciliation and common future.